Study for the pentaquark potential in SU(3) lattice QCD.

We perform the first study of the static pentaquark (5Q) potential V(5Q) in SU(3) quenched lattice QCD with 16(3) x 32 and beta = 6.0. From the 5Q Wilson loop, V(5Q) is calculated in a gauge-invariant manner, with the smearing method to enhance the ground-state component. V(5Q) is well described by the OGE-plus-multi-Y ansatz: a sum of the one-gluon-exchange (OGE) Coulomb term and the multi-Y-type linear term proportional to the minimal total length of the flux tube linking the five quarks. Comparing with QQ and3Q potentials, we find a universality of the string tension, sigma(QQ) approximately sigma(3Q) approximately sigma(5Q), and the OGE result for Coulomb coefficients.

Gluonic excitation of the three-quark system in SU(3) lattice QCD.

We present the first study of the gluonic excitation in the three-quark (3Q) system in SU(3) lattice QCD with beta=5.8 and 16(3) x 32 at the quenched level. For the spatially fixed 3Q system, we measure the gluonic excited-state potential, which is responsible for the properties of hybrid baryons. The lowest gluonic-excitation energy in the 3Q system is found to be about 1 GeV in the hadronic scale. This large gluonic-excitation energy is expected to bring about the success of the simple quark model without gluonic modes.